Hopefully this will be a place to educate people about the relatively unknown Bakken Crude oil from the Bakken Fields of North Dakota.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

The deadly secret behind the Lac-Mégantic inferno

The deadly secret behind the Lac-Mégantic inferno

"It wasn’t until four days after the July 6 derailment that the fires
finally subsided. But even before the inferno was extinguished and the
burned-out town counted its 47 dead, rescue workers and rail, petroleum
and government officials were asking the same troubling question: Why
was the oil so explosive? "

"Mr. Pritchard said that in his experience as a railroad inspector,
oil companies and shippers do not always examine oil for corrosiveness
and explosiveness.
“They didn’t test the oil,” he said.
Authorities
did test the oil after the Lac-Mégantic disaster because, as regulators
said, they could not explain the speed and ferocity of the fire."